Altamonte Springs
Altamonte Springs

Author: Jim Robison

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2002-02

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738513973

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Visitors flock to Central Florida for its mild winters, pristine waterways, and proximity to Atlantic and Gulf beaches, and in the heart of Central Florida lies Altamonte Springs, the largest city in Seminole County. Taking its name from the many spring-fed lakes and sand hills that make up the area, Altamonte Springs is now home to more than 40,000 residents. Developed into a winter resort town in the late 1800s during the area's first tourism boom, Altamonte Springs became a sunny playground for the wealthy and an oasis for those requiring a "healing" environment in which to recuperate from various ailments. Times were good, but this was just the beginning of the once tiny village's growth and prosperity. From the era when rolling pineland along the lakes drew the first settlers to the area that would became Altamonte Springs, this community has attracted visitors and new residents from far and wide. The early railroad transported winter tourists who sought the medicinal qualities of local springs, and this influx of people led to the development of many businesses, including Fuller's Store, the grand Altamonte Hotel, and the Jasmine Theater. After surviving the challenges brought about by the Great Freeze of 1894-1895, the city continued to grow, and its citizens, with an unyielding spirit, continued to work, worship, socialize, and raise families in the community they called home. Today, Altamonte Springs is the bustling retail center of Seminole County.

Altamont
Altamont

Author: Joel Selvin

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0062444271

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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s. In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock—the day that shattered the Sixties’ promise of peace and love when a concertgoer was killed by a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events from the film Gimme Shelter, the whole story has remained buried in varied accounts, rumor, and myth—until now. Altamont explores rock’s darkest day, a fiasco that began well before the climactic death of Meredith Hunter and continued beyond that infamous December night. Joel Selvin probes every aspect of the show—from the Stones’ hastily planned tour preceding the concert to the bad acid that swept through the audience to other deaths that also occurred that evening—to capture the full scope of the tragedy and its aftermath. He also provides an in-depth look at the Grateful Dead’s role in the events leading to Altamont, examining the band’s behind-the-scenes presence in both arranging the show and hiring the Hells Angels as security. The product of twenty years of exhaustive research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and the musicians who were there, and featuring sixteen pages of color photos, Altamont is the ultimate account of the final event in rock’s formative and most turbulent decade.

The Altamonte Hotel
The Altamonte Hotel

Author: Marjorie Pollard

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-09-18

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Lillian Blackwell is opulently raised in Boston with an adoring father and a mother who cannot accept her daughter's strong, independent personality. As a young adult, Lillian and her parents, attend the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, igniting her insatiable desire for all the nuances the late nineteenth century has to offer. Her marriage of convenience to James Clayton, at her father's insistence, allows her to become an owner of The Altamonte Hotel in Florida. On their honeymoon trip down the St. Johns River, she meets Bonner McDermott, a rogue riverboat captain, who after learning of James's death from malaria, pursues Lillian's love interest. However, Lillian discovers she's pregnant from her honeymoon and therefore has no time for romance. Now widowed and thousands of miles from the security of her father's support and encouragement, Lillian is determined to prove to the world that she can succeed as a hotelier. She is mentored by Henry Flagler and Julia Tuttle, as well as hosting many prominent, fascinating people who stay at The Altamonte. She befriends the black hotel maid, Birdie, who becomes her confidant. Lillian endures constant hardships in a rural setting and a male-dominated society. Bonner joins Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War. Upon returning home after experiencing the atrocities of the war, he realizes that his womanizing days are over. Will Lillian let him into her tight circle?

Altamont 1969
Altamont 1969

Author:

Publisher: Damiani Limited

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9788862086233

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Altamont 1969 by Bill Owens presents a new and unpublished series of work, black and white photographs documenting the unique moment of the first large Rolling Stones concert at Raceway Altamont in California. This was the period of protest movements in San Francisco. Bill Owens captured the young generation's desire to stand up and raise their voice against the war in Vietnam, against segregation and racial discrimination, and against authority in general. Slogans and billboards, sit-ins and demonstrations are evidence of the cultural agitation of those years. Together with the Stones, other major rock bands appeared on stage, including Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane, Carlos Santana and many others, while the Hells Angels were employed as security. Bill Owens has always been involved in socio-anthropological aspects of American culture and in the rise of the collective movement of protest and criticism against the misuse of power. Here, he uses photography as a kind of 'visual anthropologist', painting a fresco' of the cultural revolution that marked the entire world during the 1960s.

GRE Prep Plus 2023, Includes 6 Practice Tests, Online Study Guide, Proven Strategies to Pass the Exam
GRE Prep Plus 2023, Includes 6 Practice Tests, Online Study Guide, Proven Strategies to Pass the Exam

Author: Kaplan Test Prep

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 1506282040

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